While Boston Legal is at its best when centered on these two egoists, and slightly floundered when it took attention away too much, its formula works as the absurdities extend to other characters and dramatic plotlines.

The host asked me to read a passage where the members of Congress were described as "535 egoists superglued to corporate interests who get to kick around the great questions of war and peace," to take just part of the lavishly insulting passage.

Rather than launching a direct attack upon the rational egoists by claiming that what they have in mind for humanity is not in its best interest, Dostoevsky digs deeper by attacking with a question rather than a declaration: what are our best interests?

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